The Career Channel (Audio)

Join UC San Diego’s Mary L. Walshok as she moderates a timely discussion with best-selling author Ken Blanchard. Blanchard’s latest book is Refire! Don’t Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life, co-authored with UC San Diego School of Medicine psychologist Morton Shaevitz. Together, Blanchard and Shaevitz weave poignant life stories and humorous anecdotes with their own experience...

Peter Barnes, entrepreneur and former Newsweek correspondent, discusses his new book “With Liberty and Dividends For All: How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don’t Pay Enough.” He argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future. Therefore, he proposes a supplementary source o...

Considering a life as an entrepreneur? If so, you won’t want to miss “Create Your Own Job,” an informative panel discussion featuring four professionals who all took the plunge by creating their own companies. Moderated by Lee Ann Kim of Pacific Arts Movement, panelists include Adam Markowitz of Portfolium, Denise Bevers of Kindred Biosciences and Henry DeVries of Indie Books International. While...

Christian Felipe is the Managing Member of CAF Holdings, a private investment office in Santa Barbara. He has participated in numerous Angel investments throughout the US. Prior to that, Felipe founded and managed Sirios Capital Management in Boston, Massachusetts, a multi-billion long/short global hedge fund and also worked for 13 years at MFS where he led the #1 ranked growth fund in America for...

Waguih Ishak joined Corning in 2007 to establish a new Silicon Valley facility, the Corning West Technology Center (CWTC) in Palo Alto, California. CWTC is part of Global Research and is staffed with scientists and engineers working on high-speed interconnects, touch displays, solid-state illumination and sensors. Additionally, CWTC is responsible for business development and collaborations on the...

Steve Zahm has been the President of Procore Technologies Inc., a cloud-based construction software provider, since 2004. As President, Steve is responsible for overseeing revenue generation and customer success at the company. Prior to Procore, Steve co-founded DigitalThink, one of the first significant cloud-based software companies in the corporate learning industry. While at DigitalThink, Stev...

Jim Zarley spent the first nineteen years of his career with RCA Corporation in various senior management roles with a focus on sales and operations. He acquired his first business (Quantech) in the mid-1980's where he served as CEO and led the initiative to automate the California Department of Motor Vehicles and later sold the company to Automated Data Processing (ADP). In 1996 Mr. Zarley became...

Qualcomm Co-Founder Irwin Jacobs provides insight into the role UC San Diego played in enabling him and his colleagues to build one of the largest information technology companies in the world. Jacobs is the featured speaker for the 2014 Herb York Memorial Lecture, presented by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Ed...

Approaches to a career in medicine can be many and varied. UC San Diego Extension’s Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program is one such avenue highlighted in this informative panel discussion featuring four experts in medical education as well as a recent graduate of this exciting new program. Series: "Career Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Business] [Education] [Show ID: 28753]

Angel Martinez is a leader in product marketing, innovation and future trends. He returns to his alma mater, UC Davis, recounting his business journey through Reebok, Keen and now Deckers Brands. Holding senior positions has given him insights into what makes effective leaders. He argues that it is necessary for leaders to lead through a highly developed sense of compassion and empathy. Only when...

UC Berkeley lecturer Saru Jayaraman gives a rousing talk describing the harsh and unequal treatment of the nation’s restaurant staff as she argues for increasing the minimum wage in what is now the second largest and fastest growing industry in the country. Jayaraman is presented as the keynote speaker at the Fall 2014 Board of Advisors Dinner for the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley...

Explore opportunities in the field of sustainability and discover what skills are needed to launch or further your career. Learn more about the Sustainable Business Practices professional certificate program and how it can help you reach your professional goals. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 28565]

Join Tim McConnell, Director of Engineering at 3D Robotics, Inc. as he shares the story of his company’s genesis and explores the amazing opportunities and possibilities in an industry where truly, the sky is the limit. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 28564]

Miles Beckett is the Co-Founder and CEO of Worksteady, a company transforming healthcare staffing by directly connecting healthcare facilities with qualified doctors and nurses. He is formerly the Co-Founder and CEO of EQAL, a digital media company acquired by Everyday Health in 2012. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 28472]

Many middle-class Americans grew up certain they would achieve the same or higher level of success than their parents had: by going to college, working many years for one employer and retiring with a pension. But starting as early as the 1970s, that tradition started to erode, says Katherine V.W. Stone, the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Professor of Law at UCLA. She argues that the reality toda...

Seeking legendary surf breaks along with a great education, Nick Woodman (Muir ’97) enrolled at UC San Diego with the goal of graduating with a degree that would prepare him for a career in finance or maybe even law. What he got instead was a degree in visual arts, a wife he met in class and a dream job as founder and CEO of the world’s fastest growing camera company, GoPro. Join GoPro’s Nick Wood...

Dan Burnham is the retired Chairman and CEO of Raytheon Company. Prior to Raytheon, he held numerous leadership and management roles at companies including Allied Signal and the Carborundum Company. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 28469]

66 teams competed in the UC Davis 2014 Big Bang competition. Aspiring entrepreneurs were awarded cash prizes aimed at helping get ideas from academia into the real-world market. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 28366]

Phil Blair, author of “Job Won!,” an insightful guide on what employers are really looking for shares strategies and techniques to leverage your education and experience and build a career you’re passionate about. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 28254]

Precision medicine integrates molecular and clinical research with patient data and outcomes, aiming to place the patient at the center of all elements. In this emerging field, bioinformatics is a core technology. Learn how bioinformatics has evolved to deal with Next Gen Sequencing data and explore new career opportunities for biomedical and clinical researchers. Series: "Career Channel" [Busines...

Intellectual property (IP) rights are essential to the survival of life science companies. Learn about current key issues facing IP professionals in the life science industry and explore career opportunities for scientists seeking to remain close to cutting edge discovery without being in the lab. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 25967]

Executive Perspective for Scientists & Engineers (EPSE) celebrates its 30th year. Since its founding, EPSE has graduated more than 800 senior-level science and engineering professionals, providing a business-oriented perspective on challenges facing today’s technology industries. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 25968]

Big data keeps getting bigger and bigger, impacting our daily lives and scientific research. Join faculty and industry leaders as they present and discuss the various activities surrounding big data, including the latest developments in research, services and education. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 25687]

Edward Zhu, CEO, CHIC Group, speaks on innovation, global business, and Chinese agribusiness. Zhu has more than 20 years of global business experience including as an entrepreneur, a leader, a financier, an investor, a supply chain management expert and the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the CHIC Group. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special...

Harold Schmitz, Executive Director of the Mars Center for Cocoa Health Science, speaks on how scientific discovery and fundamental understanding in food, agriculture, and health sectors offer critical business opportunities at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management Dean's Distinguished Speaker Event, October 22, 2013 Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Spec...